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Environmental Research is the debut CD from Spacewave, the primary music vehicle of long-time engineer, producer, and artist John Palmer. This project was started in September 2000 and, after several intervening life changes including a studio move, was finally completed in November 2002. Featuring the one-hour tone poem Environmental Research and the more rhythmic Andro-Media, Spacewave establishes itself in the ambient and rhythmic electronica genre.
As a multi-media artist, John Palmer has produced a broad range of work over the past thirty-five years, working primarily in photography, painting, and music.
John Palmer received his fine arts education and training at the Corcoran School of Art and at the predecessor of what is now University of the District of Columbia, in Washington, D.C. He has had exhibitions at the Dickey Gallery (Washington, D.C.) and Andro-Media Galleries (Ann Arbor, Michigan). John Palmer's nature photography has focused on the interplay between sunlight and water. His paintings have ranged from the hard-edged op-art of the late 1960's to his floated color and air-brush atmospheres of the 1980's and 1990's.
He is largely self-taught in music after early clarinet training. Recording music groups since high school, he founded Andro-Media in 1972 to expand his audio and video production work. He has performed his musical compositions in the groups FMO, Metakone 53/74, Soft Boulder, Oasis, Sparks, and Stormy in the Ann Arbor area. His post-modern music style reflects jazz, r&b, rock, new age, and world music influences.
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